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Cargando... The Stone Boudoir (2002 original; edición 2002)por Theresa Maggio
Información de la obraThe Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily por Theresa Maggio (2002)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very evocative writing, simple and heart-rendered. You can tell the author has a deep and emotional connection to this place. She is not a casual tourist but someone who takes the time to entwine and bond with the places & people she visits. I love the descriptions of street food - octopus, spiny sea urchins cracked open on the spot and scooped out with crusty bread, raw oysters, steamed clams, mussels. She also tells the dark side of the island — the devastating earthquakes, continual volcanic eruptions, the Mafia, the intrigue and gossip. Perfect armchair travel reading! This book makes me long to live in Sicily. Time seems to have stood still in the mountains of Sicily. Your taken back, in some respects, to feudal times. and the people are so diverse - friendly in some villages - alienating in others. The author moves to Sicily in order to capture the flavor of stories her mother and grandmother told her. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Fascinated by her family's stories of their Sicilian homeland, Theresa Maggio decided to return to her ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice and to explore the vanishing world they had left behind. She travelled to some of the most obscure and isolated villages in the shadows of Mount Etna, many of which had been all but destroyed by a huge earthquake in 1968. There she found an ancient way of life, where religious processions can consume villagers for days on end and where almonds grow like weeds by the raodside. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I suppose it’s for the best, as the book hasn’t dampened my desire to go to Sicily, but neither did it light a fire of “must plan a trip NOW” magnitude, which given current conditions might have proved more frustrating that reading a bland book. ( )